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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970726
Author:Townsend, Juliet

EDWARDIAN FICTION: AN OXFORD COMPANION

by Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter

Publisher, L30.00, pp. 402

It has always been a rich field for the reader of every kind of fiction, that strange uneasy interlude between complacency and catastrophe, between the death of the old queen and the Marne. Take one year, for instance, 1905, in which were published Where Angels Fear to Tread, Kipps, Rider Haggard's Ayesha, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arnold Bennett's Tales of the Five Towns, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Hill and Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men, all books which are ...

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